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/  letter to the editor
   by composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
   after reading the review of The Elastic Track in the Danish newspaper Politiken,
   Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen wrote a letter to the editor in order to express his   
   disagreement with the paper’s review (see below).
   The letter was never published though.........
  

  "For many understandable reasons, music critics are seldom reviewed themselves.
   This, however, is the purpose of this comment: In Thomas Michelsen's review of the     "Thursday-Concert" on March 8th 2007, he writes that the young composer Simon   Christensen's new piece "The Elastic Track" basically belongs in the trash can.
  But, if anything, the trash can is where Michelsen should throw his own review.

  He completely missed that we are facing a new and exciting piece of music with
  "The Elastic Track" - consistently conceived and to the point. No doubt, its sound is   macabre, gloomy and even "ugly" - in the traditional sense of the word - but it is   nevertheless imaginatively composed and strangely expressive. The constant                         overlapping rhythms were moreover deeply disquieting.

  One hears a new era in this piece. Or that is; some can hear it - some not.
  The composer had a good day on March 8th 2007, the music critic a bad one."

 

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